Dew Drop – August 18, 2023 (#4007)

Top Links

• New Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio release with exciting features for .NET developers (Yu Zhang)
• Multi-Branch Graph Available for General Audiences (Jessie Houghton)
• Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK v1.4.230811000-preview2 (NuGet)
• Want to build a Copilot for your app? Semantic Kernel & Prompt Flow for Beginners (Matthew Anderson)
• TechBash 2023 – Announcing Three Amazing Keynotes and a Labor Day sale! (TechBash Team) – Scott Hunter, Paul Yuknewicz, Kathleen Dollard, and Mads Kristensen are presenting at TechBash this fall!

Web & Cloud Development

• Kubernetes v1.28: Retroactive Default StorageClass move to GA (Roman Bednář)
• AWS Step Functions in C# (Camilo Reyes)
• Unleash Docker Desktop 4.22: The Featherweight Heavy-Hitter for Supercharged Rapid Development (David Scott)
• How to Use the CSS gap Property (Ralph Mason)
• 10 Hot Summer Apps You Can Build with Open-Source APIs (Diana Pham)

WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML

• Chart of the Week: Creating a WinUI Spline Area Chart for Top Google Investing Searches in 2022 (Nitheeshkumar Thangaraj)
• Telerik UI for .NET MAUI Chat: The Face of Chatbot Service for Natural Human Conversation (Rossitza Fakalieva)
• Load Custom Badge UI in Your .NET MAUI App: An Overview (Selva Ganapathy Kathiresan)
• VijayAnand.MauiTemplates v4.0.0 (NuGet)
• Windows App SDK 1.4 Preview 2 Object Model Diagram Diff (Morten Nielsen) – See what classes and members are new in v1.4 Preview 2

Visual Studio & .NET

• Targeting Multiple Frameworks in a .NET Project (Code Maze)
• MNW #051: Advanced Rate Limiting Use Cases In .NET (Milan Jovanović)
• What it means when you convert between different shared_ptrs (Raymond Chen)
• Sneak Peek: Retrieving Timestamped Raw Signature Data (Bjoern Meyer)

Design, Methodology, AI & Testing

• Final parts of the cost bottleneck of scaleups and TDD with GitHub Copilot (Martin Fowler)
• The Future of Terraform, Announcing OpenTF! (Craig Dunn)
• Part two: 7 must-know object-oriented software patterns (and their pitfalls) (Panos Patros)
• Azure Cognitive Search and LangChain: A Seamless Integration for Enhanced Vector Search Capabilities (Gia Mondragon)
• Accelerating Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js: Using Pretrained Models and Docker (Harsh Manvar)
• Behaviour-Driven Design is more than tests (Oskar Dudycz)
• Microsoft Open Sources ‘ONNX Script’ for Python Machine Learning Models (David Ramel)
• Adobe’s Open Developer Platform Principles (Aubrey Cattell)
• Prompt engineering tips (Craig Dunn)
• How to Overcome Protective Hesitation So EVERYONE Gets the Feedback They Deserve to Learn and Grow (Katie Bartlet)
• Celebrating Failure? by Louise Wilson (Louise Wilson)
• mTLS: When certificate authentication is done wrong (Michael Stepankin)
• Microsoft CEO Says AI Is a Tidal Wave as Big as the Internet (msmash)
• Building Projects – Unlock Success As A Beginner Programmer (Nick Cosentino)
• Self Documenting Code (Sam Ehlers)

Mobile, IoT & Game Development

• Update to Windows Subsystem for Android™ on Windows 11 (August 2023) (Brandon LeBlanc)

Screencasts & Videos

• Intro to C# with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 (Katie Savage)
• This is a crazy update | Flutter 3.13 (Codepur)
• How do I become more confident about AI? | One Dev Question (John Maeda)
• Performance Demos of SQL’s Intelligent Query Processing Feedback capabilities | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman)
• What I Wish I Knew… about coming to Microsoft (Marc Mascarenhas)
• Developer Jumpstart: The Principles of Data Modeling for MongoDB (MongoDB Team)

Podcasts

• CppCast – Soagen (Phil Nash & Timur Doumler)
• The Changelog Podcast – 30 years of Debian (Jonathan Carter, Adam Stacoviak & Jerod Santo)
• JS Party Podcast – Refined thinking (Jim Nielsen, Jerod Santo & Nick Nisi)
• Rocket 451: Call Us, SBF! (Christina Warren, Brianna Wu & Simone De Rochefort)
• The Stack Overflow Podcast Episode 600 – Semantic search without the napalm grandma exploit (Eira May)
• Software Engineering Radio 577: Casey Muratori on Clean Code, Horrible Performance? (Giovanni Asproni)
• Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast – Vision, Strategy, Collaboration, The Art of a Remarkable Product Owner | Danielle Braun (Vasco Duarte)

Community & Events

• Webinar: Simplify Your Architecture with Wolverine (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Microsoft is prepping new Surface hardware for next month (Mark Hachman)
• What the Hachette v. Internet Archive Decision Means for Our Library (Chris Freeland)
• Meet the Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders Class of 2023 (Iran Karimian)
• Webinar – Mastering SQL Query Performance: A Deep Dive into Index Tuning and Analysis (Pinal Dave)
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella discloses plans for new cricket stadium in Seattle (Priya Walia)
• Microsoft to hold ‘special event’ in New York City on September 21st (Tom Warren)
• Meet Text Control at TechBash 2023 (Bjoern Meyer)

Database

• GitHub Copilot Examples to Create SQL Server Indexes and Tune Queries (Alejandro Cobar)

SharePoint, M365 & MS Teams

• Teams AI Library – Boost your Teams bots with AI (Vesa Nopanen)

Miscellaneous

• Driving Performance at Microsoft Bing (Bing Team)
• Small update for the Paint app for Windows 11 rolling out with UI changes (Brandon LeBlanc)
• The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games (Dave McCarthy)
• Leaked images show Lenovo’s Windows based Steam Deck competitor called the Legion Go (Devesh Beri)

More Link Collections

• Code Maze Weekly #181 (Vladimir Pecanac)
• Daily Reading List – August 17, 2023 (#145) (Richard Seroter)

The Geek Shelf

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